3.0.0 3566 2023-01-15T08:33:23Z 2023-01-15T08:33:23Z House H HR 2003-11-20 108 hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee Referred to 2003-12-18T16:15:22Z Referred to 2003-11-20T15:03:50Z hsii00 Natural Resources Committee House Standing hsii20 Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee Referred to 2003-12-02T14:04:32Z Referred to 2003-11-20T15:04:00Z A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and management program for forests derived from public domain land. 108 1910 S 2004-04-26 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 477. Related bill CRS 2003-12-18 hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Committee 2003-12-02 hsii20 Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health. Committee 2003-12-02 hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 1 House committee actions Executive Comment Requested from USDA. Committee 2003-11-20 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 2003-11-20 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2003-11-20 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2003-11-20 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2003-11-20 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress W000791 Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2] GREG WALDEN R OR 2 N Public Lands and Natural Resources Acid rain Animals Carbon cycle Environmental Protection Exotic animals Exotic plants Fire prevention Forest conservation Forest fires Forest health Forest management Forestry Forests, forestry, trees Geographic information systems National forests Non-native species Oregon Pest control Pests Reforestation Remote sensing Science, Technology, Communications Space activities Tree diseases Weather West (U.S.) Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2003-11-20 Introduced in House 2003-12-03T16:28:30Z Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to use geospatial and information management technologies (including remote sensing imaging and decision support systems) to inventory, monitor, and identify National Forest System and private (with consent) forest stands.

Directs the Secretary to carry out such program through: (1) remote sensing technology of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey; (2) emerging geospatial capabilities in research activities; (3) validating techniques; and (4) integration of results into pilot operational systems.

Directs the Secretary to address: (1) environmental threats (including insect, disease, invasive species, fire, acid deposition, and weather-related risks and other episodic events); (2) forest degradation, and preventive management practices; and (3) characterization of vegetation types, density, fire regimes, and post-fire effects. Directs the Secretary to designate a facility in the Ochoco National Forest headquarters within Forest Service Region 6 to address such issues, with particular emphasis on coniferous forest stands in the Western United States.

Directs the Secretary develop an early warning system for catastrophic environmental forest threats.

]]> To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program using geospatial and information management technologies to inventory, monitor, characterize, assess, and identify forest stands and potential forest stands, and for other purposes. Display Title To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program using geospatial and information management technologies to inventory, monitor, characterize, assess, and identify forest stands and potential forest stands, and for other purposes. Official Title as Introduced To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program using geospatial and information management technologies to inventory, monitor, characterize, assess, and identify forest stands and potential forest stands, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2003-11-20T05:00:00Z 2003-12-18 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.